Yup - including the shipping, its not attractive. Note that all that fragile glass packed into rather feeble cardboard boxes has to make it to you in whatever country you are in, without breakage.
Face it - what are you actually buying here? Part of (certainly not all) of a factory line that made IN-18s. Big deal. That's not the problem - the expertise is - neon equipment, spot welders, glass tempering etc. is common and understood. The bags of ceramic beads etc. are useful, but not worth a huge amount. The "special metal" is what exactly? Are the wire-forming machines there? All the digits (and the decimal points)? The anode screen punches? Nowadays the digits etc. would probably be formed by an alternative technique - the Russians were expert at using what they had available to the best effect, but in the 30 or 40 years since this equipment was first commissioned, manufacturing techniques have moved on. Maybe USD 10,000 including shipping would be almost OK, but 40K? Certainly doesn't work for me :) Nick On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:35:57 UTC, Nixcited delighted wrote: > So a best case scenario is you get 10,000 nixies at the end of the > day. For all the heartache of making them you have paid $4.348 before > adding the cost of the magic smoke, the compressor, hand press etc > etc. If you only get the lowest estimate of 1,000 tubes, you will > have paid $43.48 each, but probably double that. > > Does it work for you? > > John S > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/Vt2K0SjSDsYJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
